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humancelltournament · 3 months ago
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Ubiquitin is a small (8.6 kDa) regulatory protein found in most tissues of eukaryotic organisms, i.e., it is found ubiquitously. The addition of ubiquitin to a substrate protein is called ubiquitylation (or ubiquitination or ubiquitinylation). Ubiquitylation affects proteins in many ways: it can mark them for degradation via the proteasome, alter their cellular location, affect their activity, and promote or prevent protein interactions.[4][5][6] Ubiquitylation involves three main steps: activation, conjugation, and ligation, performed by ubiquitin-activating enzymes (E1s), ubiquitin-conjugating enzymes (E2s), and ubiquitin ligases (E3s), respectively.
Dopamine (DA, a contraction of 3,4-dihydroxyphenethylamine) is a neuromodulatory molecule that plays several important roles in cells. It is an organic chemical of the catecholamine and phenethylamine families. Dopamine constitutes about 80% of the catecholamine content in the brain. It is an amine synthesized by removing a carboxyl group from a molecule of its precursor chemical, L-DOPA, which is synthesized in the brain and kidneys. In the brain, dopamine functions as a neurotransmitter—a chemical released by neurons (nerve cells) to send signals to other nerve cells. Neurotransmitters are synthesized in specific regions of the brain, but affect many regions systemically. The brain includes several distinct dopamine pathways, one of which plays a major role in the motivational component of reward-motivated behavior.
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TSRNOSS, page 209.
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whats-in-a-sentence · 2 years ago
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JA acts through a conserved ubiquitin ligase-based signaling mechanism that bears close resemblance to those described for auxin and gibberellin (Figure 23.19). (...) Two additional proteins and two histone deacetylase enzymes (HDA6 and HDA19) act as co-repressors asking with the JAZ-COI1 complex and are instrumental in maintaining the chromatin in an inactive state (see Figure 23.19). The binding of JA-Ile to the JAZ-COI1 co-receptors leads to the ubiquitination of JAZ by the SCF^(COI1-JA-Ile) complex, followed by JAZ degradation via the 26S proteasome (see Figure 23.19).
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"Plant Physiology and Development" int'l 6e - Taiz, L., Zeiger, E., Møller, I.M., Murphy, A.
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tenth-sentence · 2 years ago
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The plant hormones jasmonate and gibberellin also promote the interaction between an F-box protein of a SCF ubiquitin E3 ligase and its transcriptional repressor target proteins (Figure 15.34B and C).
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"Plant Physiology and Development" int'l 6e - Taiz, L., Zeiger, E., Møller, I.M., Murphy, A.
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cancer-researcher · 4 months ago
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girlactionfigure · 4 months ago
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1 Nobel Prize in Chemistry - The Development of Multiscale Models for Complex Chemical Systems
2 Nobel Prize in Chemistry - Quasiperiodic Crystals
3 Nobel Prize in Chemistry - Decoding the Structure and The Function of The Ribosome
4 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences - Repeated Games
5 Nobel Prize in Chemistry – Ubiquitin, Deciding the Fate of Defective Proteins in Living Cells
6 Nobel Prize in Economics - Human Judgment and Decision-Making Under Uncertainty
7 Fields Medal Award in Mathematics
8 Turing Award - Machine Reasoning Under Uncertainty
9 Turing Award - Nondeterministic Decision-Making
10 Turing Award - The Development of Interactive Zero-Knowledge Proofs
11 Turing Award - Developing New Tools for Systems Verification
12 Vine Seeds Discovered from The Byzantine Period
13 The World’s Most Ancient Hebrew Inscription
14 Ancient Golden Treasure Found at Foot of Temple Mount
15 Sniffphone - Mobile Disease Diagnostics
16 Discovering the Gene Responsible for Fingerprints Formation
17 Pillcam - For Diagnosing and Monitoring Diseases in The Digestive System
18 Technological Application of The Molecular Recognition and Assembly Mechanisms Behind Degenerative Disorders
19 Exelon – A Drug for The Treatment of Dementia
20 Azilect - Drug for Parkinson’s Disease
21 Nano Ghosts - A “Magic Bullet” For Fighting Cancer
22 Doxil (Caelyx) For Cancer Treatment
23 The Genetics of Hearing
24 Copaxone - Drug for The Treatment of Multiple Sclerosis
25 Preserving the Dead Sea Scrolls
26 Developing the Biotechnologies of Valuable Products from Red Marine Microalgae
27 A New Method for Recruiting Immune Cells to Fight Cancer
28 Study of Bacterial Mechanisms for Coping with Temperature Change
29 Steering with The Bats 30 Transmitting Voice Conversations Via the Internet
31 Rewalk – An Exoskeleton That Enables Paraplegics to Walk Again
32 Intelligent Computer Systems
33 Muon Detectors in The World's Largest Scientific Experiment
34 Renaissance Robot for Spine and Brain Surgery
35 Mobileye Accident Prevention System
36 Firewall for Computer Network Security
37 Waze – Outsmarting Traffic, Together
38 Diskonkey - USB Flash Drive
39 Venμs Environmental Research Satellite
40 Iron Dome – Rocket and Mortar Air Defense System
41 Gridon - Preventing Power Outages in High Voltage Grids
42 The First Israeli Nanosatellite
43 Intel's New Generation Processors
44 Electroink - The World’s First Electronic Ink for Commercial Printing
45 Development of A Commercial Membrane for Desalination
46 Developing Modern Wine from Vines of The Bible
47 New Varieties of Seedless Grapes
48 Long-Keeping Regular and Cherry Tomatoes
49 Adapting Citrus Cultivation to Desert Conditions
50 Rhopalaea Idoneta - A New Ascidian Species from The Gulf of Eilat
51 Life in The Dead Sea - Various Fungi Discovered in The Brine
52 Drip Technology - The Irrigation Method That Revolutionized Agriculture
53 Repair of Heart Tissues from Algae
54 Proof of The Existence of Imaginary Particles, Which Could Be Used in Quantum Computers
55 Flying in Peace with The Birds
56 Self-Organization of Bacteria Colonies Sheds Light on The Behaviour of Cancer Cells
57 The First Israeli Astronaut, Colonel Ilan Ramon
58 Dr. Chaim Weizmann - Scientist and Statesman, The First President of Israel, One of The Founders of The Modern Field of Biotechnology
59 Aaron Aaronsohn Botanist, Agronomist, Entrepreneur, Zionist Leader, and Head of The Nili Underground Organization
60 Albert Einstein - Founding Father of The Theory of Relativity, Co-Founder of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem
61 Maimonides - Doctor and Philosopher
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hellsite-proteins · 5 months ago
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oh you want cursed biochem acronyms? good god i’ve got some absolute Bricks to share.
piRNA - PIWI interacting RNA
PIWI and RNA are also both acronyms
PIWI - p-element-induced wimpy testis
yes they’re nesting acronyms now. yes i hate it.
UHRF1 - "ubiquitin-like, containing PHD and RING finger domains, 1"
once again PHD and RING are both acronyms. STOP NESTING ACRONYMS
PHD - plant homeodomain
RING - really interesting new gene
reading papers for genetics/biochem courses is like. ah how many random sequences of letters can we cram in here before people start calling bullshit. and apparently? it’s a lot.
today i googled GPS looking for 'global protein stability', and was completely shocked when i was reminded that there is a much more common use for that acronym. please share any more cursed acronyms you know in the notes!
letter sequence in this ask matching protein-coding amino acids:
hywantcrsedichemacrnymsgdgdivegtsmeaslterickstsharepiRNAPIWIinteractingRNAPIWIandRNAarealsthacrnymsPIWIpelementindcedwimpytestisyestheyrenestingacrnymsnwyesihateitHRFiqitinlikecntainingPHDandRINGfingerdmainsnceagainPHDandRINGarethacrnymsSTPNESTINGACRNYMSPHDplanthmedmainRINGreallyinterestingnewgenereadingpapersfrgeneticsichemcrsesislikeahhwmanyrandmseqencesfletterscanwecraminhereefrepeplestartcallingllshitandapparentlyitsalt
protein guy analysis:
this structure does a wonderful job illustrating the difference between secondary and tertiary structure. there is a decent amount of secondary structure, with lots of alpha helices of widely varying lengths. however, they do not actually come together to make anything. that is why, when you look at the surface, it is more holes than protein. it seems that unnatural, random proteins with a hydrophobic core may be more likely to aggregate and therefore more dangerous to the cells, but i'm not expressing these in anything anyways, so i still think it would be nice to have a good-looking image.
predicted protein structure:
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surface representation
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longhaulerbear · 3 months ago
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Several of the most prevalent new-onset autoantibodies have, to our knowledge, not been described previously, including the three with the highest prevalence, i.e., anti-CCDC63 (coiled-coil domain-containing protein 63), anti-TRIM63 (E3 ubiquitin-protein ligase TRIM63), and anti-SNURF (SNRPN upstream reading frame protein)
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mindblowingscience · 10 months ago
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Scientists in Canada and the U.S. have discovered a new way in which Ebola—an often deadly virus affecting people mostly in sub-Saharan Africa—reproduces in the body. By shedding light on how the virus interacts with a human protein called ubiquitin, the researchers have also identified a potential target for new drugs to prevent the disease.
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humancelltournament · 3 months ago
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Podocytes are cells in Bowman's capsule in the kidneys that wrap around capillaries of the glomerulus. Podocytes filter the blood, retaining large molecules such as proteins while smaller molecules such as water, salts, and sugars are filtered as the first step in the formation of urine.
SUMO (Small Ubiquitin-like Modifier) proteins are a family of small proteins that are covalently attached to and detached from other proteins in cells to modify their function, via a process is called SUMOylation. SUMOylation is a post-translational modification involved in various cellular processes, such as nuclear-cytosolic transport, transcriptional regulation, apoptosis, protein stability, response to stress, and progression through the cell cycle.
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The Science Research Notebooks of S. Sunkavally. Page 208.
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whats-in-a-sentence · 2 years ago
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Strigolactones are perceived by a protein complex containing an α-/β-fold hydrolase protein and an F-box protein (D14 end MAX2, respectively) (Figure 19.31).
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"Plant Physiology and Development" int'l 6e - Taiz, L., Zeiger, E., Møller, I.M., Murphy, A.
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tenth-sentence · 2 years ago
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In brief, a small protein called ubiquitin is first activated by an enzyme termed an E1 ubiquitin-activating enzyme in an ATP-dependent manner (Figure 15.33A; see also Figure 2.18).
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"Plant Physiology and Development" int'l 6e - Taiz, L., Zeiger, E., Møller, I.M., Murphy, A.
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maxinemartinsdrill · 6 months ago
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got too into iwtv and now I'm learning about the ubiquitin - proteasome pathway
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er-cryptid · 8 months ago
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26S Proteasome
-- protein complex
-- found in eukaryotes
-- large
-- cylindrical
-- degrades ubiquitin-labeled proteins in peptides
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castingcomets · 11 months ago
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In my senior year of highschool we had a final project in AP Biology which was open-ended and could be just about anything. I rewrote (and performed) Thrift Shop to be about various branches of biology using the terminology that we had used that year. I titled it "Niche Shop."
These are the lyrics.
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^ So you can follow along.
Hey… You wanna go niche shopping?
I’m an organism I’m alive You can tell by how all my cells utilize I’m- I’m- I’m growing, adapting and I’m showing, This is my response
Walk into a niche like what up I’m an organism Organ cells, organelles, carbon-based organ systems If I’m surviving, got the traits you wanna copy Got ‘em like- “Damn, I better acquire mimicry”
Factor in, fitness my kin Nat select me as a king Dressed as a warning or I’m camouflaged from everything The strongest or the fastest, sharper than Damascus But if you really wanna live, you gotta have looooong… Telomeres!
Hoofin’ it, wingin’ it, gonna optimal forage it Passin’ up through the TD forest Humus is a freebie nourish Not rockin’ semelparity but, I am a rarity 1.8 meters too much room for a disparity!
An issue of polarity, Irregularity of molarity, Disrupts cellular activity Lacking biologic dexterity
Dehydration synthesis, poly or di Covalent bonding with all the mama-saccharides!
They had an H ion, I took an H ion For ETC so I can have the energy to hang on Mito makes a maze of its membranes To gain energy used in transduction signal pathway chains
I could take some bases, Rough ‘em up and misplace The wild types would be like “Oh, he got the lactase”
I’m gonna eat some carbs I need energy and I’m on guard I’m- I’m- I’m drinking, drying and I’m linking, This is glycosidic
I’m gonna bond some peptides There are four structures so please stay wise I’m- I’m- I’m asking, amino group and acid, But don’t forget nucleotides (AUOHW!!)
What’chu know about being hydrophobic? What’chu know about being hydrophilic? I’m diffusion’, I’m movin’ right through that fatty bilayer Meet the mosaic and all its necessary players!
Thank Aunt Ester, for linking glycerols and fatty acids It’s an asset keep ‘em like molasses Metabolism, you can have in catabolic (bolic) Minus delta G or you can have it anabolic (bolic)
Prokaryotes, no nucleus All have membranes like eukaryotes Cyto-structure and ribosomes and DNA in that cytoplasm Eukaryotes have organelles in that cytoplasm Lysosomes and vacuoles in that cytoplasm
They’re like “oh, that peroxisome, that’s hella tight” I’m like “yo… that makes hydrogen peroxide” Competitive inhibition will render us quickly illin’ Catalyse that catalase to cure our condition
Don’t forget, ‘bout the mosaic composition Don’t forget, about what lets somethin’ else in That receptor is hella though But havin’ a common one in a pandemic is a hella NO
Peep gang, come take a look at my DNA Find all the nights I spent with retroviral RNA
[Interlude] In your DNA … viral RNA … turned to DNA … and then to RNA Immune … poppin’ cells … yeah!
I’m gonna place some tags Ubiquitin be quittin’ on all these proteins This cellular machine, RNA in vaccines An acid for every codon
I made God to be in my image All these kids descend from my lineage I have eternal DNA My fitness is secured through advantageous traits [X2]
As DNA replicates Every cell from a cell - this never dates I’m- I’m- I’m growing, adapting and I’m showing, This is my response
Are those your Grandpa’s genes?
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